Planet & Plant Note
April 27, 2026: We are now firmly in Taurus season, with the Sun moving through the sign until May 20. But this week carries something additional worth paying attention to. Pluto, the planet of death, rebirth, and the complete dismantling of what is no longer true, is in an exact square to the Taurus Sun this week.
Pluto does not ask gently. It does not knock. It finds the thing you have built your identity around, the story you have been telling about yourself for twenty years, and it pulls the foundation out from underneath it.
This can feel like crisis. But it is actually excavation.
Taurus wants stability. Taurus wants to know who it is and stay that way. And Pluto says: the version of you that needs to stay that way is exactly what needs to go.
The question this week is not who you are. It is whether who you think you are is actually true, or whether it is just a story you have been repeating for so long that it started to feel like a fact.
This is Psilocybin medicine. When you work with psilocybin, one of the most common and disorienting experiences is the dissolution of narrative identity. The story you have built around yourself, the one that explains why you are the way you are, why certain things always happen to you, why you cannot do certain things or be certain ways, loosens. Sometimes it falls apart entirely. And in that open space, before the story rebuilds itself, you get a glimpse of something underneath it that is far more fluid, far more free, and far more honest than the character you have been playing.
When you work with Kambo, it does something similar at the physical level. It purges the cellular memory of who you decided you were. The medicine does not care about your biography. It only cares about what is alive in you right now.
The Story That Is Running You
We are honored you are here for this one. Because this is one of the most quietly powerful things we have ever tried to put into words.
You have a story about yourself.
You probably do not call it a story. You call it the truth. You call it just who I am. You call it my experience, my past, my reality.
But it is a story. And it is running far more of your life than you realize.
Here is what it might sound like:
I am someone who always struggles with money. I am not the kind of person who finishes things. I have always had trouble with relationships. I am too sensitive. I am not disciplined enough. I am someone who gets anxious. I have never been able to trust people. I am broken in ways that therapy cannot fully reach.
These are not facts. They are narratives. And the difference between a fact and a narrative is that a fact does not need you to keep repeating it in order to remain true.
You do not have to remind yourself that the sky is blue. But you repeat these stories constantly, in your internal monologue, in how you explain yourself to others, in the decisions you make before you even realize you are making them.
And every repetition makes the groove deeper.
What Neuroscience Actually Shows
Dr. Michael Gazzaniga’s research on narrative identity shows that the human brain has what he calls an interpreter, a region in the left hemisphere that is constantly generating explanations and stories to make sense of our experience. It does not wait for all the facts. It constructs a narrative and then looks for evidence to support it.
This is why once you decide you are someone who always struggles with money, your brain starts filtering experience through that lens. It notices the evidence that confirms the story and dismisses what does not fit. Not out of malice. Out of efficiency.
Research on neuroplasticity from Dr. Joe Dispenza and others shows that the neural pathways associated with repeated thoughts and self-concepts become physically thicker over time. The more you think a thought, the faster and more automatically it fires. Your story about yourself is not just a habit of thinking. It is a structural feature of your brain.
But here is the other side of neuroplasticity. Those same pathways can be interrupted, rerouted, and rebuilt. The brain that learned a story can unlearn it. But only if you first recognize it as a story.
A 2013 study published in Psychological Science found that when people were guided to reflect on their self-narrative and consciously reauthor it, they showed measurable reductions in anxiety and depression and significant increases in adaptive coping. Simply identifying the story as a construction, rather than a fixed truth, was enough to begin loosening its grip.
Where the Story Came From
No one makes up these stories about themselves for fun.
They come from somewhere real. A parent who told you, directly or indirectly, that you were too much or not enough. A series of experiences that seemed to confirm a pattern. A trauma that your nervous system encoded as: this is how the world works, this is who I am in relation to it, stay alert.
The story was never random. It was a survival mechanism. It was your brain’s attempt to make sense of pain and create a framework that would protect you from repeating it.
But you are not eight years old anymore.
And the story that protected you then is now the ceiling you cannot figure out how to get past.
How Working with Plant Medicine Dismantles the Story
When you work with Psilocybin, it does not just show you your story. It shows you that you are not your story. It creates enough distance between you and the narrative that you can finally see it as a narrative. And in that gap, you get to ask: is this actually true? Or is this just what I have been repeating?
When you work with Kambo, it strips the body of the physical armor that holds the story in place. The tension in your jaw that says I have to stay guarded. The tightness in your chest that says I am not safe to be seen. After a ceremony, people often report a window of unusual openness, not because the story is gone, but because the body is no longer holding it with the same grip.
The medicine does not rewrite your story for you. It gives you the only thing you need to rewrite it yourself: the momentary, undeniable experience of existing outside of it.
Try This
Pick one story you tell about yourself regularly. Not the whole biography. Just one sentence you repeat.
Write it down.
Then ask these three questions and write those answers down too.
Where did I first learn this about myself? What would I have to believe for this to not be true? Who would I be this week if I acted as if it was already changing?
You do not have to dismantle the whole story today. You just have to find the one loose thread.
Pull it gently. See what moves.
Something to Listen To This Week
Put on Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports.” It was designed to create the experience of existing without narrative, without urgency, without a story needing to go anywhere.
Let it play while you sit with the question of who you are underneath the story you have been telling.
Action Prompt
This week, catch yourself mid-story.
When you hear yourself say “I always” or “I never” or “I’m just not someone who,” stop.
Ask: is that true, or is that just familiar?
Then notice what it feels like to not finish the sentence.
That pause is where the new story begins.
Now We Want to Hear From You
What is one story you have been telling about yourself that you are starting to suspect might not be completely true?
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